Re: Octave GUI 0.4

[Bill Denney]

I just wanted to thank you for doing this.

Bill

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:

> I just released version 0.4 of Octave-GUI.
>
> Main new feature is an Octave GUI user's manual. You may read it here:
> http://www.math.mcgill.ca/loisel/octave-gui/octave-gui-0.4/html/index.html
>
> I secretly updated 0.3 behind your backs several times yesterday with small
> bugfixes, and there are a few more in 0.4.
>
> Bug fixes:
> * Main window now better at keeping the focus in the input widget.
> * Call octave_exit() before exiting otherwise on some computers it consumes
> 95% cpu.
> * Keep the files tab synced with the cwd.
> * A few more bugs I forgot.
>
> Known bugs (help me if you know how to solve them!)
> * QDirModel still is causing me problems. It ignores the NoDotAndDotDot
> flag.
> * I was unable to get the QT assistant configured to work with my HTML help
> files. In June 2005, John Vilburn noticed that helpdemo was not part of the
> QT distribution (
> http://lists.trolltech.com/qt4-preview-feedback/2005-06/thread00304-0.html).
> It appears that this is still the case, in disagreement with the QT
> documentation.
> * If you hit F1 for help, I execute firefox to read the doc. However, in
> some situations, you won't be able to close Octave GUI until you've closed
> firefox. This appears to be a QProcess feature.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sébastien Loisel

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